Your Footing Quotes

#1. You can't expect to walk through life without stepping in the muck now and again. The important thing is to maintain your footing when you do, and not fall on your face and make it worse.

Terry Goodkind

#2. You'll notice that the Intrepid's inertial dampeners don't work as well in crisis situations, Dahl remembered Jenkins telling them. The ship could do hairpin turns and loop-de-loops any other time and you'd never notice. But whenever there's a dramatic event, there goes your footing.

John Scalzi

#3. When you hit your lowest point, you have two choices: stay down and let the circumstances drown you, or find your footing and kick until you eventually break the surface. I decide to kick.

Amy Matayo

#4. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

Ken Kesey

#5. In the real world anything can happen. It's like stepping onto an icy surface - you have to adjust your footing or you'll slip and fall.

Katie Kacvinsky

#6. If you are not consciously directing your life, you will lose your footing and circumstances will decide for you.

Michael Beckwith

#7. It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.

Fulton J. Sheen

#8. Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.

Oprah Winfrey

#9. Its not how strong you are, its how firm your footing is.

Clive Ollies

#10. If you do not understand what God's present claims over you are, you may depend upon it that as days of testing come on you will not be able to keep your footing.

George Wigram

#11. After you kind of find your footing, sonnets are what comes easiest.

Marilyn Nelson

#12. At times in life you must rediscover your footing.

Coleen Innis

#13. If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds.

Randy Pausch

#14. Being near her was like balancing on a tipping world, trying to keep your footing as the ground wanted to roll you forward, hurl you into a spiral from which there was no recovery, only impact, and it was a longed-for impact, a sweet and beckoning collision.

Laini Taylor

#15. You're invited to tons of parties, and you'll wear these shoes and that dress, and it can be enticing, but I think it also sucks you dry. If you do it a little, sure, it's fun, but too much and you start to lose your footing.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#16. Evil, let it never be mistaken, is real. But it is inferior. It is parasitic. It is incomplete. The moment we take counsel from it, become overwhelmed by it, or put it on an equal footing with the Good of God, it will have become something entirely more dangerous. It becomes an idol.

Tod Worner

#17. But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government.

Aldous Huxley

#18. So start your day on a delightful footing. Laugh, play and give thanks for all you have.

Robin S. Sharma

#19. In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

Bobby Scott

#20. Memory was a slippery thing - slick moss on an unstable slope - and it was ever so easy to lose one's footing and fall

Kelly Barnhill

#21. I had some struggles to find my footing. I couldn't really find a place to appreciate me - I'm a little bit curvy for the dance world.

Sarah Hay

#22. [The world] is not a pretty place; and the only way to keep a footing in it is to fight it on its own terms - and above all, my dear, not alone!

Edith Wharton

#23. You haven't beaten me. You have sacrificed sure footing for a killing stroke.

Henri

#24. For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.

Vince Cable

#25. You and I are so different: I am one word at a time one foot in front of the other, slowly, always testing how surely footing is before proceeding to the next sentence with ruminative breaks for buttered toast and coffee.

Carlene Bauer

#26. I went to Guatemala to help build a school but left wondering what "help" would really look like... I hadn't prepared myself for how humbled I'd feel, or how hard it would be to find my footing when witnessing a cycle of poverty that seemed to defy any sort of help.

Dee Williams

#27. The road to comfort is crowded and it rarely gets you there. Ironically, it's those who seek out discomfort that are able to make a difference and find their footing.

Seth Godin

#28. I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.

Lisa Marie Presley

#29. To dare is to momentarily lose one's footing.
But not to dare is to lose one's self.

Soren Kierkegaard

#30. Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance.

Kevin Rollins

#31. No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

Mahatma Gandhi

#32. America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.

Robert Reich

#33. We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth.

John Hodgman

#34. No wonder women have achieved a more equal footing with men in areas they never fought for
ulcers, hypertension, and heart attacks. We're racing around trying to be all things to all people, burdened by a brutal mix of ambition, anxiety, and guilt.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#35. Maybe I don't know him as well as I thought. Maybe I didn't know myself. Maybe my world is turning upside down and I can't find my footing.

Celia Mcmahon

#36. He was trying to find his footing in a world both familiar and foreign

H.W. Brands

#37. I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.

Jodi Picoult

#38. My goal in politics from the very beginning has been, and will be, the goal of giving Ukraine a chance to finally secure a firm footing in the world as a competitive, independent and real European state.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#39. Run your business in harmony with God's laws. This will keep you on an ethical footing. Seek to please God in everything you do.

David Green

#40. We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.

Benjamin Carson

#41. Whether you believe in Jesus, Buddha, the Beatles, crystals, mother earth, or anything else that takes your interest, all are held to be on the same footing; all have equal validity for the relativist.

John C. Lennox

#42. Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife

John Cornyn

#43. Self-preservation - this is your new focus.
The only obligation of today is to preserve the breath of tomorrow. Then, once footing is regained, you can begin to fulfill debt obligations.
Debt is hindsight.

John-Talmage Mathis

#44. Age isn't triggered by wrinkles,nor by the reduction of strong footing,for the true youth exists effectively in your heart,brightens through your smile and beats slow when your heart is right, innocent like that of a child

Nwilliams S C

#45. Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.

Henry David Thoreau

#46. The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you're one with the mud.

Lynn Jennings

#47. You cannot put women and men on an equal footing. It is against nature. They were created differently. Their nature is different. She should not laugh loudly in front of all the world and should preserve her decency at all times.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#48. We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among them.

Joseph Addison

#49. Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I,
Seeing that our footing on the Earth is brief-
Seeing that her multitudes sweep out to die
Mocking at all that passes their belief.

Herbert Trench

#50. A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives.

Hassan Rouhani

#51. Pregnancy and childbirth are not only physical and medical experiences, after all. They are also social experiences that, in modern America, just as when abortion was criminalized in the 1870s, serve to restrict women's ability to participate in society on equal footing with men.

Katha Pollitt

#52. What keeps this industry challenging as an actor is that you never know how something will turn out. The ups and downs are constant. You're never just smoothly sailing along. You're always going to be on loose footing. That's what ultimately now I expect and accept and that doesn't scare me as much.

Elisabeth Shue

#53. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

#54. When you're a kid, you think you're going to have this deep well of time with your parents when you grow up and you're all on equal footing.

Elisabeth Egan

#55. Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding out what kind of footing the horses had is nuts and cannot possibly direct a motion picture.

Dick York

#56. There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits.

Michelle Malkin

#57. By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.

Mercy Otis Warren

#58. When those closest to us respond to events differently than we do, when they seem to see the same scene as part of a different play, when they say things that we could not imagine saying in the same circumstances, the ground on which we stand seems to tremble and our footing is suddenly unsure.

Deborah Tannen

#59. The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing.

Ricardo Alarcon

#60. But how could she trust herself to keep her footing? She knew the strength of the opposing impulses-she could feel the countless hands of habit dragging her back into some fresh compromise with fate.

Edith Wharton

#61. Shall we upon the footing of our land
Send fair-play orders, and make compromise,
Insinuation, parley, and base truce,
To arms invasive?

William Shakespeare

#62. Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

George Bernard Shaw

#63. There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he's held up by the others until he regains his footing.

Phil McGraw

#64. I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#65. I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.

Deborah Tall

#66. Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way.
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Norman Mailer

#67. Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.

William Shakespeare

#68. People sometimes forget how to be happy due to a failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal footing. That was the only moral a story must have.

Ian McEwan

#69. If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.

Michel De Montaigne

#70. poetry's favourite moment is when one loses one's footing because of a landslide or seismic shaking of thought

Michel Leiris

#71. Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.

Ellen Tauscher

#72. He must love you very much,' Gavril said once I had my footing.
I couldn't look at him. 'What makes you say that?' Gavril sighed. 'I've known Maxon since he was a child. He's never stood up to his father like that.

Kiera Cass

#73. The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing.

Richard Dawkins

#74. What Wiesenfeld meant by "alternative," and what was hinted by RBG's use of the phrase life partner was a marriage in which the woman didn't lose herself and her autonomy, in which two humans shared their lives and goals on equal footing.

Irin Carmon